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Badlands – Badlands

Badlands is the debut studio album by the band of the same name. This album features Ray Gillen and Eric Singer, who previously played together in Black Sabbath. This album also features guitarist Jake E. Lee and bassist Greg Chaisson. Singer later played on Chaisson’s solo album It’s About Time. The album had sold 400,000 copies by 1990, according to Chaisson, in a Hit Parader interview from that year. It was also ranked No. 35 in Rolling Stones list of 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time.

The album features the song “Dreams in the Dark”, which the group released as a single and music video.

Kirk Blows, reviewer of British music newspaper Music Week, named LP as “accomplished and worthy debut” and praised its diversity. Billboard called this record “a collection of well-crafted tunes that should jump out of the radio and sound great live.”

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Tracklist

This album was recorded on instruments tuned down 1/2 a step to E♭ Standard tuning (E♭-A♭-D♭-G♭).

Everything is transcribed "as if" in E Standard to make it easier to read and play. All Keys/Modes and Accidentals are written as per E Standard tuning.

001 - highwire

Nothing here yet, my dude...

002 - dreams in the dark

Nothing here yet, my dude...

003 - jade's song

Nothing here yet, my dude...

004 - winter's call

Nothing here yet, my dude...

005 - dancing on the edge

Nothing here yet, my dude...

006 - streets cry freedom

Nothing here yet, my dude...

007 - hard driver

Nothing here yet, my dude...

008 - rumblin' train

Nothing here yet, my dude...

009 - devil's stomp

Nothing here yet, my dude...

010 - seasons

E♭ Standard Tuning
  • Instrument: 4 String Bass Guitar
  • Page Count: 7
  • Format: Interactive PDF
  • difficulty Level: Intermediate
  • Tuning: E♭ Standard (E♭-A♭-D♭-G♭)
  • Key(s): Am, E phyrgian
  • Download Size: 1.4MB

011 - ball and chain

E♭ Standard Tuning
  • Instrument: 4 String Bass Guitar
  • Page Count: 7
  • Format: Interactive PDF
  • difficulty Level: Intermediate
  • Tuning: E♭ Standard (E♭-A♭-D♭-G♭)
  • Key(s): Em, E Mixolydian, A Mixolydian, E phyrgian
  • Download Size: 1.6MB

Badlands Discography

Below are the other albums for which there are transcriptions. Click the album covers to go to their pages and get the transcriptions.

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